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Tuesday, 11 September 2018

Is the use of strong bleach to attack a Flag which was part of the Scottish Parliament estate in a Public space a criminal offence Police Scotland ? Will you take action against the cretin responsible ? How long till this idiot thinks throwing Bleach on another Human being is a reasonable act too ?

Wednesday, 20 September 2017

This what 10 years of the SNP has brought ScotlandScottish Homecare Crisis: Leaked report reveals patients miss medication and go without food and water.
Patients in a huge swathe of Scotland's West Highlands have gone without food and water and missed doses of medication because there are not enough home carers to cover shifts, according to a leaked report seen by the Sunday Herald.
Vulnerable people have been left in bed for hours and had no personal care because Argyll and Bute health and social care partnership (HSCP) is dealing with a “home care crisis in Oban and the surrounding area”.

Minutes of the “Emergency Care at Home Meeting” called on September 12 by the HSCP reveal “the state of home care has reached critical” and the service users are at “high risk”. The leaked HSCP report said: “It is not always possible to ensure all scheduled visits are provided resulting in missed medication, no personal care being provided, clients left in bed for prolonged periods of time and clients going without food or fluids for prolonged periods of time.” More via LinkScotlands Failing Homecare Link
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Monday, 18 September 2017

"SNP Manifesto 2007, Page 52 “We will reduce class sizes in Primary 1, 2 & 3 to 18 pupils or less.”
10 lost years focusing on constitution means that now Scotland has Primary School classes of up to 40 children per class.
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Scathing report from the RSE Education Comittee on the SNP's review on School Governance.

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Tuesday, 6 June 2017

"....... the Scottish Government is making it harder for me. The election manifesto being launched today will, by all accounts, advocate a return to the top income tax rate of 50p in the pound on the people earning more than £150,000 a year. Not that this affects me personally – I’m a freelance writer, for heaven’s sake – but to my mind it’s the principle that counts and the practical effects this principle will have.

For a Scotland probably now plunging into recession, it would be hard to think of a worse policy. All over the world, governments finding their economies in this failing condition habitually cut taxes so as to give consumers more spending power and by such means start the process of renewing growth. In the Scotland, the birthplace of modern economics, we now propound the opposite. The result will be the opposite too. Our growth rate, which even when not negative is woefully feeble, will languish further. Scotland will continue to get relatively poorer than England. Independence will be indefinitely postponed.
All this would be easier to understand if the Scottish Government was in some coherent sense socialist. For myself I am glad it is not, because I confidently expect June 8, 2017, to be the day European socialism dies, when in its English form it will be put to the sword only a month after it collapsed in its French form, and while we wait for the same fate to overtake it in its German form in October. Sweden will then be left as the sole major EU member to be ruled by socialists, but that has been going on with few interruptions since 1917. Only in Scotland is socialism, in a good many people’s eyes, something for the future rather than just a relic of the past.

It is a model that a lot of SNP supporters yearn to follow but the Scottish Government hardly satisfies even them, as you can regularly read from several disgruntled columnists in this newspaper. Fiscal policy is neither fish nor fowl. At the same time as favouring rises in income tax, the Scottish Government officially wants to cut corporation tax, the air passenger duty and VAT on tourism, while still exploring ways to improve incentives for corporate investment. Indeed, when the higher top rate of income tax was earlier proposed by Scottish Labour and the LibDems, the SNP at first rejected the idea. So what is the Scottish Government’s fiscal purpose? Search me.

It is not that it lacks for good advice. A faithful champion of the nation’s cause, ex-MSP Andrew Wilson, was placed in charge of the growth commission set up to fill the glaring lack in the SNP’s spectrum of policies of any ideas likely to make us more prosperous, as opposed to living off windfalls or subsidies. And he has pointedly made it known that he has been arguing against the 50p top tax rate. It is really depressing that the government has decided to ignore the best advice available to it.
So far, those in the nationalist movement of a more liberal or conservative frame of mind have been able to go with the flow of an SNP on the left because that was what had brought it to its dominance of Scottish politics – and, without supremacy in the socialist west of Scotland especially, independence would never be won. But while the party talked left, it acted right (in both senses of the word). As First Minister, Alex Salmond was a tax-cutter. He froze the community charge (which meant a reduction in real terms), and he eased the burden of business rates, while also calling for a lowering of other taxes, particularly corporation tax, which were not yet under his government’s control. In his years of office, the Scottish economy proved to be less sluggish than usual, and the aim of matching the UK growth rate, when announced in 2010, did not at the time look to be beyond us.

Since Nicola Sturgeon took over, I’m sorry to say, Scottish economic policy has become a bit of a shambles. She herself appears ignorant of and indifferent to economics. The man who might have looked after these things for her, John Swinney, unwisely shifted himself into the quagmire of Scottish education, where he is in danger of sinking. So the Scottish economic shop is being minded by two men, Derek Mackay and Keith Brown, for whom the term clueless would be a compliment. While fatuously claiming the economy is resilient, they have in fact exposed its fragility.
Of course, the Scottish Government would love as a remedy to spend a lot more money, but that is no different from most governments around the world, including conservative ones. After all, Theresa May and her merry men are counting on a budget deficit of £58 billion next year, with no final elimination of the gap between getting and spending before 2025 (otherwise known as the 12th of Never). If this is austerity, we may well wonder what fiscal luxuriance would look like. In any case, the choice of such targets is not just an act of will, to be guided by progressive or reactionary principles, but is in the final analysis a matter of what the financial markets will stand for. They have been lenient with the UK, at least this side of Brexit. An independent Scotland will need to win their confidence, rather than just assume it.

If Scotland ever were to become Independent it would end up getting a "Thatcherite Scouring "of our economy.. Free Prescriptions and Free Bus Passes would be the first go to ,then deeper cuts plus various Tax Rises to make up the all the other lost Billions from Westminster thanks to the SNP.

Wednesday, 22 March 2017

SNP does not intend rejoining the EUhttp://eutoday.net/news/scottish-referendum" All leave voters are racists and bigots"Jim Sillars has properly nailed Nicola Sturgeon to the Wall with her actions on Brexit See the whole article here " Why Nicola Sturgeon's tongue is running ahead of her brain over Brexit." Her many official statements are based on a false interpretation of the referendum result.Yes, 1.6million Scots voted for the UK to Remain with the EU, but there is no evidence that they made a side decision for an independent Scotland, through Indyref2, to re-join it, if England, Wales and Northern Ireland left it.The referendum ballot paper posed a specific question and that alone was the one we answered." Read more HERE Why Nicola Sturgeon's tongue is running ahead of her brain over Brexit: Jim Sillars=================================================================================A former SNP minister has said he voted for a Brexit against the party's official position.
Alex Neil, who served in Nicola Sturgeon's cabinet, told The Daily Telegraph that he had decided to vote Leave ten days before the vote, and said other party MSPs had told him they had done the same.

SNP party policy was to remain in the European Union, and Nicola Sturgeon campaigned prominently for Remain before the June 23 referendum.But the Airdrie and Shotts parliamentarian was not convinced by the rhetoric and "scare campaign" of the Remain side, and decided to back a breakaway from Brussels.

"In the last ten days of the campaign I was persuaded and George Osborne just tipped me over with his emergency budget," he told the newspaper."I saw the scaremongering and there was no way I was going to endorse it. I was not going to vote for George Osborne and David Cameron's scare campaign."

He also argued the austerity enforced upon other member countries such as Portugal and Greece had pushed him towards his decision.
The full story by clicking this link herehttp://stv.tv/news/politics/1371932-alex-neil-reveals-he-and-a-number-of-snp-msps-backed-brexit/
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ALEX Salmond has dismissed "fanciful" claims from former cabinet minister Alex Neil that nearly 40 per cent of the SNP’s 120,000-strong membership supports Brexit and that there is widespread support for Leave among the party's MSPs.
Salmond spoke out after Neil's shock admission that he voted to Leave on June 23 - the biggest act of internal dissent at Holyrood faced by the party' in its nine years in power.
Although an estimated 36 per cent of SNP 'voters' opted to leave, the argument between Salmond and Neill centres on how 'members' of the party chose to cast their ballot

Saturday, 11 February 2017

About ‘The Wee Flea’My name is David Robertson and I am the minister of St Peters Free Church in Dundee Scotland.https://stpeters-dundee.org.uk/
I don’t claim any particular wisdom or expertise and value immensely the insights of others. One piece of advice in reading these – please don’t read between the lines. I write what I think (at least what is appropriate for the public arena!) and I try not to speak in code! There is no ‘in between’. Please don’t read into what I say what is not there !

Part 1: The Fantasy1 : Supporters of Scottish Independence should vote No if there is another Independence Referendum.2 : The SNP has exchanged the idea of Scottish Independence for the fantasy of the progressive EU.3 : Independence in Europe is not Independence.4 : The EU is not the democratic, progressive Nirvana that the SNP propaganda machine and politicians publicly espouse.5 : An Independent Scotland joining the EU is not the slam dunk deal the SNP keep telling us.Click Link Belowhttps://theweeflea.com/2017/02/09/when-yes-means-no-a-tale-of-three-referendums-part-1-the-fantasy/
Archived copy here https://archive.is/siH10
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Part 2 : The Nightmare1 : The SNP has chosen to ignore, mock and abuse, or allow to be abused, Scottish people who do not agree with their stance on the EU.2 : Too much grandstanding on the world/European stage and not enough practical action on the council estates of Scotland.3 : The SNP has being an increasingly authoritarian and anti-democratic party.4 : The Scottish Government has also become authoritarian.5 : A free society needs a free pressClick Link Belowhttps://theweeflea.com/2017/02/10/when-yes-means-no-a-tale-of-three-referendums-part-2-the-nightmare/Archived copy herehttps://archive.is/K3Ih2
=================================================================Part 3 : The Dream1 : Because of its Hubris and Short-Sightedness, the SNP are destroying the dream of Scottish Independence2 : Such a Parcel of Rogues.3: I still have a dream.4 : The SNP should stop grandstanding and being delusional over Brexit.5 : We need to start using the powers we have.6 : Can we look for the Scottish Economic Opportunities on Brexit.7 : Can we move away from dependence on the State sector, and multi-nationals and can we not encourage small business, local enterprise and local initiatives.8 : Can we have a greater awareness of our society and cultural heritage and seek to support the greatest traditions of our past – including the centrality and importance of the family.9 : Can we move away from the increasing centralisation to Edinburgh and Glasgow and instead have a greater re-distribution to local areas, and more local autonomy.10 : Can we return to the basic principles of the Beveridge report. It set up our modern welfare state to deal with the Five Giants of Poverty, Ignorance, Disease, Squalor and Idleness.https://theweeflea.com/2017/02/11/when-yes-means-no-part-3-the-dream/Archived copy here https://archive.is/EVile
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===========================The End of the Dream : Why the SNP have given up on Independencehttps://theweeflea.com/2016/10/17/the-end-of-the-dream-why-the-snp-have-given-up-on-independence/
Archived copy here https://archive.is/5JGGq
==================================================================European Referendum : The Tipping Pointhttps://theweeflea.com/2016/04/26/european-referendum-the-tipping-point/
Archived copy here https://archive.is/cgVOT
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